From the first edition of Thomas Tegg's 'A London Encyclopaedia'
By SHURY, John after ASSHETON, J. , 1829
£40
BUY

Japan

Asia Japan
  • 作者: SHURY, John after ASSHETON, J.
  • 出版地: London
  • 出版商: Published by Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside
  • 发布日期: 1829.
  • 物理描述: Engraved map.
  • 方面: 236 by 274mm. (9.25 by 10.75 inches).
  • 库存参考: 15912

笔记

A map of Japan from the first edition of Thomas Tegg’s ‘A London Encyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary’.

The publisher, Thomas Tegg (1776-1845), began his publishing career as an apprentice to Alexander Meggett, a book-seller in Dalkeith. After an itinerant life selling chapbooks in Berwick, working for the editor of the Sheffield Register and travelling in Ireland and Wales, he moved to London in 1796. He found success in publishing pamphlets containing abridgements of popular works; he sold fifty thousand copies of a work on the life of Nelson after the Battle of Trafalgar. ‘A London Encyclopedia’ was published twice in 22 volumes in 1829 and 1839.

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